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dogoodwithbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Set in the beautiful Alaskan mountains, The Tourist Attraction focuses on a tourist going on her dream Alaska vacation and ends up falling in love with the town’s grumpy restaurant owner.
There are things that worked and didn’t work well in this book. While the MCs have a pretty decent character development, Morganthaler spends a lot of time on detailing the most minor of characters, appearing in only a chapter or two and later becoming a forgettable entity. Additionally, while I did think this book can be funny at times, the slapstick humor that Morganthaler utilized in The Tourist Attraction felt, at times, forced.
Nevertheless, the book isn’t bad and I would recommend it for readers who want a destination read that focuses on more quirkier characters. However, there is definite room for improvement.
Graphic: Violence and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Vomit and Car accident
thaliareads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Abandonment and Alcohol
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, and Vomit
The FMC does get left behind at one point and the resulting feelings do get discussed. One of the primary settings of this book is the MMC's bar, which means you'll see alcohol and the results of drinking too much as well as bar fights and injuries from various exploits. Sexual content while semi detailed in what is written, is fade to black/primarily implied. Animal cruelty has to deal with the fact that tourists don't understand how to properly interact with wildlife.ems_rxlibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Alcohol and Cursing
Minor: Violence
kaitlinnoodles's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
I listed ‘sexual content’ as a minor content warning, but any sex-related scenes are fade-to-black.
The book has a lot of cute moments and is
Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming
Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit
Minor: Confinement, Car accident, Grief, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Drug use, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Violence
the_vegan_bookworm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Sexual content
kfmcf's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.25
This book did my two least favorite things, though, and when they're put together it makes me want to tear my hair out.
I'm not going to run out to read the sequels. I don't like Lana very much as a character (I'm sorry, but what person from Chicago speaks like that), but I like Easton so I may skip the second and go to the third if anything.
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Vomit
mollywill's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Moderate: Animal cruelty
Minor: Sexual content
sharon_reads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This was a fun read. It was hilarious, and the relationship was charming and enchanting, even though it didn’t start out that way. This book features the grumpy and sunshine trope, and Graham, our leading man, hates any, and all tourists. Until, he meets Zoey. Then everything changes. We still get to his grumpy attitude towards everyone else while being sweet on Zoey, and I loved it. Despite his feeling, he went out of his way to try to make her vacation a memorable one.
The book took an unexpected turn when it reflected on both the positive and negative aspect of smaller communities being a tourism town. It was interesting to see both perspectives, and see how destructing it can be to the locals.
The ending kind of through me for a loop and I felt like we lost out on Graham being his normal self, and instead he was being stupid. Despite his feelings the entire book, we only see at the end him put the hate on which annoyed me. It wasn’t the ending I was expecting but still ended up having me crying over a fictional moose and the relationship all over again.
This was a fun read. It had some serious themes integrated into the novel which I wasn’t expecting, but it made the story more realistic. This is exactly what I needed to get me out of my slump.
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Grief
Moderate: Drug use, Fatphobia, and Violence
theespressoedition's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
While I enjoyed the audiobook, for the most part, I did feel like the narrator made some of the characters sound a little strange and it caused the chemistry between them (romantic or not) to feel a little forced at times. This was especially true for the ladies in the story. It made me think that Lana was a lot more provocative and that Zoey was a bit of a bimbo dork. However, if you look past the way they sounded, the story itself was entertaining.
I read that it was a grump and sunshine trope, but that really didn't feel like the case to me. If Graham is supposedly a grump, he certainly didn't show it with Zoey. I realize it's more the way he feels about tourists overall, but he was more flirty and goofy than grumpy to me. He just had a complex when it came to tourists.
...whiiiich really irritated me. I get it - it's the point of this story, but Graham's prejudice against tourists REALLY irks me. The fact that he's so adamant against them and yet he literally runs a place called The Tourist Trap bugged me to no end. Stupid reason to dislike a book, but it definitely knocked the rating down a couple of notches for me
I'm glad that I read this though because it's lighthearted for the most part and was a great lead into the sequel!
Graphic: Alcohol
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Toxic relationship
bedtimesandbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Alcohol
Minor: Car accident